Life Big Read: The Best Critic of a Writer . . .

. . . is another writer. And thus I have taken Stephen Mitchelmore’s advice and checked in on Gabriel Josipovici’s sage critique of Life A User’s Manual. I encourage you all to do the same, although it will take a trip to your local library. Here’s the citation:

And here are the first two grafs. I’ll discuss this article more later in the week:

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The first paragraph of the essay above doesn’t appear in that published in “Text & Voice”, a collection of essays from 1992 which may be easier to find that the citation above. It may have other differences.

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